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veins ■Hniformlj extending from the base ; a short white cilial lunular point between 

 the veins, the apical one being sometimes elongated. Ilindicing with a large creamy- 

 white upper-discal patch usually composed of four portions, of which the upper 

 portion is much the shortest, and, generally, the lower portion has an attached very 

 small more or less whitish speckled spot ; in some specimens there are golden-yellow 

 scales scattered longitudinally between the outer interspaces of the median branches, 

 and, in others, the outer marginal and lower discal area are sparsely speckled with 

 similar scales. Cilia alternated slenderly with white. Underside paler. Forewing 

 with grey-scaled cell streaks and golden-yellow scaled outer vein streaks, these latter 

 streaks either uniformly occupying the outer interspaces, or, in some, are more or less 

 restricted to the apical area, with their inner ends slightly more defined and greyish- 

 scaled — thus slightly indicating the presence of a subapieal oblique fascia; a bluish- 

 white constricted spot is always present obliquely placed in the submedian interspace 

 near the posterior angle, below which is a more or less white-speckled smaller spot ; 

 cilial white points prominent. liimlwing with the upper and lower basal area and 

 the cell streaks, or the whole dark area of the wing except the tail sparsely irrorated 

 with golden-yellow or greyish scales ; upper discal patch Avhite, of which the four 

 jiortions, as above, are sometimes smaller, these being followed by three very much 

 smaller lower-discal spots, which latter are either quadrate, bluntly conical, or 

 lunular in shape, placed in the median and submedian interspaces, and thus form a 

 transverse discal interrupted band, these three last spots are either white, or the 

 third, and in some the second and third are yellowish-ochreous, and occasionally, but 

 ver}^ rarely, these three lower-discal small spots are absent; beyond is a sub- 

 maroiual row of six yellowish-ochreous lunules and an anal lunule ; cilial lunules 

 prominently white. Ilfiu] and thorax black ; collar and head white spotted ; 

 abdomen fuliginous-black with a white lateral continuous streak and a sublateral row 

 of dots ; legs black, femora white beneath ; antennas black. 



Female. Upperside paler, dark sepia-brown ; cell and vein-streaks paler, the 

 anterior streaks having their base slightly greyish-white scaled outside end of the 

 cell, and thus form an ill-defined subapieal oblique fascia; the posterior streaks are 

 also more or less slightly greyish-white scaled ; marginal cilial white points and 

 elongated apical cilia as in the male. Hindwing with the dark outer area in some 

 specimens very sparsely irrorated with golden-yellow scales ; upper-discal patch 

 similar to the male, composed of five portions, very pale yellow, the upper portion 

 bein."' shorter ; cilia slenderly alternated with white. Underside. Forewing similar 

 to the male, except that, on the forrwhig, the subapieal greyish-white fascia is more 

 defined than on the ujiperside, the white spots at the posterior angle and the 

 marginal points are larger; and, on the lilvdiriiig, the anal and submarginal 

 yellowish-ochreous lunules are bi'oader, the marginal cilial lunules are also somewhat 



